First, I want to start by saying not every MLM is like the one I'm going to write about. So I'm sorry if your current company that you're a part of is nothing like this ❤ or maybe you are a part of what I'm talking about- but you don't feel the same way I do. I recognize that's possible. And hey, I don't speak for everyone but if I do, click that share button.
Second, I didn't even know MLM was a thing just a couple years ago. It is. A big thing. Everywhere you look there's people direct selling it up right ?
I kind of got sucked into an MLM. In the beginning, for all the right reasons. I saw someone using the products they were selling & I thought it was something that I, myself could really benefit from. So I started buying their products. And darn it, they did work! (Mostly)
What I didn't know was by the end of my time with this MLM I would break away from it never wanting to look back and feeling so relieved to have been able to walk away from something that was so binding and the complete opposite of what it was supposed to provide me and others I was "helping" with.
To my upline,
The products you are selling are so complex. Though you love to promote health, You are not a nutritionist or a health professional. You should be careful who you tell to put what in their body. You taught me how to go after someone's weakness in life. Whether it be a personal struggle or a hard life situation their facing and somehow provide me with the illusion and tools that with this MLM business "opportunity", I could help them fix it. This is far from truth.
I've realized there are only a select few people in a company like this that can make it to the top. Your false hope that you give people is misleading and simply dishonest. I know you saw something in me. I know at times I saw something in myself because I genuinely wanted to help someone else. I genuinely wanted to make it to the top and help others do the same. But I don't like what it would take me doing to get there. Mostly, I saw glimpses of someone I don't want to be. Ever again.
People in this MLM culture look up to you higher ranked leaders as if you're a celebrity.
So much of what you say is the completely opposite. I didn't know whether to go up or down. Look left or right.
I should not get myself in a financial hurting to become part of the business, though to make any money I will need to choose the most expensive start up.
I should be able to spend more time with my family but I should host or attend in home parties at least once a weak, make multiple calls a day, and travel to bigger events monthly.
I should make time for people who are interested, it's what I am getting paid for to help them. But if they are taking up too much time and energy or not succeeding as fast as I think they should be I should move on to someone else who will have better product or business results.
You had "nothing" until you found this business. You share that you couldn't afford groceries for your family, you were going to loose it all, you were in an insane amount of debt. But you bought into this MLM and live what most would say an expensive lifestyle. You continue to live the same lifestyle you lived before, but with more money. Things were not really going to fall apart if you didn't start this MLM asap to fix your finances, you would have figured it out like everyone else does. You just want others to think that they need this asap to fix their finances.
I heard the same phrases, the same selling lines every time. The same heartbreak stories that all end with this MLM fixing it all.
To my sponsor,
We spent a lot of time together. Mixing business and life. I felt supported by you in life in general, you were a part of my family. You were always a phone call or text away. I pushed other things away to make time for you, as you did for me. I thought we had become friends for life ! Until I decided to walk away from this MLM. Both for health and financial reasons. I've not felt supported in this decision once. And we are not like family, let alone friends anymore. It only proves to me the lack of genuiness in our friendship.
To all those I shared "product" and a business "opportunity" with,
I might have already personally reached out to you to apologize. But if I haven't, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for thinking I could solve your life problems, big & small. I'm sorry I thought you were craaaaazzzzaaay the 167th time you said "really no. Like I don't want to do this". I'm sorry to those of you who jumped on board and feel like you wasted anywhere from a couple $ to thousands of $. And I appreciate your forgiveness.
That all said, I'm a better person now because of this expierience. Much love to everyone a who was a part of this journey.
